You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
Brian Williams.
He is suppose to represent truth.
Instead, he is obfuscated, hazy, an eclipse of the sun on a cloudy day.
What the hell is this guy thinking?
He has admitted to forgetting some of the details of a story he covered during the Iraq war.
The details?
That his chopper was hit by AAA fire from rebel forces
Hey Brian. When your chopper gets hit by a rocket propelled grenade, I think you remember that.
You remember the sound of bullets piercing metal. You remember what’s it like to have your heart in your throat. You remember the smell right after you crap your pants and kiss the Earth and Thank God for being alive.
You don’t sort of remember a story of this magnitude.
This would be like Moses coming down the mountain with two burning tablets and then saying “now what am I suppose to do with these again?”
Williams has said over the last decade that his chopper was hit by enemy fire and he was lucky to be alive.
Hey Brian, you either crapped your pants, hit the deck, or got out by the skin of your ass.
There wouldn’t be a whole lot of forgetting in a situation like that.
Unless you were in another chopper that was an hour behind that never took any enemy fire.
Now if you were in a 2nd chopper that landed uneventfully, then yes, the details of a safe chopper ride might cause you to forget every detal.
The question is, which chopper do you remember?
The one that was being pierced with AK 47 bullets and was ditching in the hills?
Or the chopper that was serving champagne and caviar that landed on a cotton swab of a LZ?
Williams has publicly stated over the years that his chopper was hit by AK 47 rounds and artillery and as he tells the story, he escaped by the skin of his teeth.
Apparently this is not true.
Some would call it a lie.
NBC News says it is a case of “mis-remembering.”
Yikes.
One of the top news men in the world “Mis-remembering?”
A newsman doesn’t get to Mis-remember. If you don’t remember, then you weren’t there. If you don’t remember, then don’t say anything.
All a newsman has is his word, his reputation.
If you set that on fire in front of the whole world, then you have tarnished something that you can never get back.
It’s like pulling your pants down in front of the Pope and telling him to kiss your back side.
Once it’s done, it cannot be undone.
Right now, I’m embarrassed for Brian Williams.
This terrible news ordeal starts when some soldiers on the chopper that was hit by AAA started questioning Williams’s account.
“I don’t remember you dude,” they said on Social Media.
Weren’t you in a 2nd chopper, about an hour behind our chopper that got hit by ground fire? they muse.
And Williams’ answer to that is, oh, I forgot.
Williams has had to publicly eat crow, to retract the story, to amend the lie.
He had to sit on his own anchor thrown and waste time to say he is sorry to the planet.
How freaking horrible is that?
It makes the embarrassment of Hugh Grant getting caught with a prostitute seem fun.
Now NBC news is investigating its own guy.
Sad.
Regardless of how the P.R. flaks are handling this news debacle, and yes it is a debacle, it won’t go away any time soon.
Why? Because it is a lie. It’s not a lie among crack heads in a dirty alley.
It’s a lie told by a man who sits on a throne of truth.
His story reeks like a soiled diaper.
One of the top news men on the planet remembering a news event with a make believe ending?
To a news man, saying you were hit by AAA on a downed chopper when you weren’t is like telling a fairy tale.
It’s embarassing if not out right despicable.
It’s a lie. It’s a warm reguritative puddle of bile expelled from the stomach of a skunk.
And now other stories are being called into question.
During Katrina, Williams said he saw bodies float by in the French Quarter.
A New Orleans Health Inspector says that account is also innacurate, saying that the only body pulled from the French Quarter was that of a restraunteer who had a heart attack.
True. Not True.
It’s bad business when America’s premiere news man is suddenly expanding upon the horizon of the story to place himself in a better light.
Williams is still hunkered down and delivering the news, but the stories and the questions are now all being thrown into the mix and questioned.
In news, all you have is your reputation. If people think you are a liar when you are delivering a story, you lose and you have nowhere to go but away.
Williams and NBC need to figure out a corrective plan and quick.
My prediction is, the top anchor man might not be able to survive this storm. And as of Saturday, Williams did in deed step down to allow the fire storm to blow by.
Life’s Crazy™